Goal: Collect as much solar as I can to batteries, not send to the grid.
System:
I built a ground mounted solar system in 2017 with the help of a friend.
24x Panels Max. output about 254watts
12 Micro Inverters (APsystems YC500)
Max. output is about 6096 watts
Max. kWh per day around 49
Power Lines to the house (160ft underground) to power company meter, then a 50amp breaker to the main.
Main meter runs backwards when I'm creating more power than using.
Local power told me I was on net metering, 1 credit in 1 credit out. (not true)
I later found out that they switched it before I was connected to a different kind of net metering, they pay me a certain amount for the solar and charge me whatever they have at that time for buying it back.. no net metering as I was told. I might fight them but it's a losing battle.
Anyway, I want to install backup batteries.
I like the look of the EG4 6000xp and then the EG4 PowerPro (to hold as much as I can each day and use in the house, charge cars)
I want to take the solar, that I would otherwise be sending back to the grid, and charge batteries with it.
I assume that I'd need some CTs to measure what the solar is being produced or what is going to the grid and then feed that info to an inverter to know how much to pull from the "grid" and charge the batteries.
I just don't know where to start with my goal in mind. Not send solar power to the grid without changing the current wired setup. I want to leave that how it is and take the excess power to batteries.
System:
I built a ground mounted solar system in 2017 with the help of a friend.
24x Panels Max. output about 254watts
12 Micro Inverters (APsystems YC500)
Max. output is about 6096 watts
Max. kWh per day around 49
Power Lines to the house (160ft underground) to power company meter, then a 50amp breaker to the main.
Main meter runs backwards when I'm creating more power than using.
Local power told me I was on net metering, 1 credit in 1 credit out. (not true)
I later found out that they switched it before I was connected to a different kind of net metering, they pay me a certain amount for the solar and charge me whatever they have at that time for buying it back.. no net metering as I was told. I might fight them but it's a losing battle.
Anyway, I want to install backup batteries.
I like the look of the EG4 6000xp and then the EG4 PowerPro (to hold as much as I can each day and use in the house, charge cars)
I want to take the solar, that I would otherwise be sending back to the grid, and charge batteries with it.
I assume that I'd need some CTs to measure what the solar is being produced or what is going to the grid and then feed that info to an inverter to know how much to pull from the "grid" and charge the batteries.
I just don't know where to start with my goal in mind. Not send solar power to the grid without changing the current wired setup. I want to leave that how it is and take the excess power to batteries.